On April 28, the House Science and Technology Committee passed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. But, even as the bill passed 29 to 8 with overwhelming bipartisan support, several Republican members offered amendments to reduce science spending.

This past spring, six American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences and eight were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

ASBMB public affairs staff members Peter Farnham and Kyle M. Brown spent May 5 on Capitol Hill, escorting ASBMB members serving on the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology board to meetings with various Congressmen and Senators.

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology recently has been listed as a resource on Cancer.net and also has released a new Breakthroughs in Bioscience article, titled “Life’s Blood: Angiogenesis in Health and Disease."

Coordinated by Journal of Biological Chemistry Associate Editor Joel M. Gottesfeld and Benjamin F. Cravatt, the new “Chemical Biology Meets Biological Chemistry” minireview series features six articles that emphasize the importance of uniting synthetic chemistry with biochemistry in the study of complex biological processes.

First off, let me apologize for not mentioning everybody. It’s just that there have been so many. When I took the job as president-elect of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, three years ago, I never imagined how much help I was going to need and how much I was going to get.

“I’m bone tired,” said U.S. Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wis., in early May when he announced his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives after serving since 1969. The Wisconsin democrat has been chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee since the Democrats took control of the House in 2006 and also has served since then as chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, which oversees the National Institutes of Health.